VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: God Bless, Build, Burden and Blind and Help Us!

Gaining Heaven Is A Participatory Endeavor!

We cannot, and should not, believe or behave as though, live or die, win or lose, lie or deny, Heaven - like turkey on a sumptuously laid celebration table - is waiting for any and all, whether early to commit or late to arrive!

Heaven awaits those who R.S.V.P. their acceptance of the Formal Invitation by the specified Due By date - which is upon receipt of the Spirit's Call - and we will not be permitted to call up a friend's father's favorite frat brother to bounce another person and get us a preferred placement.

Each Invitation To Live In, With, and For Jesus Christ is Private and Particular and Personal and Pointed:

Private to YOU, ALONE! 

Particular to YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE! 

Personal for YOUR HEART ONLY! 

Pointed to YOUR NEED OF JESUS CHRIST!
As finite beings of dying dust, energized by The Creator's Life's Breath, we can at any moment expire without a prior written, and received, and accepted, and filed, Notice of Immediate Action.

There is no appeal. There is only acceptance, and compliance.

So, with this eventuality in mind, let us accept that:

God's Mercy is Faithful. 

God's Goodness is Love. 

God's Angels watch over His Children

And the Light of Life shines from Heaven Above.

And let us ask God to:

Bless the Heart that shares God's Word. 

Bless the Head that seeks to reason with God. 

Bless the Feet that walk in Right Paths. 

Bless the Eyes that seek to do Good. 

Bless the Hands that work to show God's Love.

Bless the Body which is traveling to The Home Above. 

Let us, therefore:

Bless Our God for His Sacrificial Love
which gives us the Right to go Home!

And let us ask Our Father to:

Build up in us a dynamic Hope for our Heavenly Home. 

Blind our Eyes to Sin and its leaven. 

Burden our Hearts with Love for our Fellow man. 

Help us to do Right while Life shall stand. 

Let us a Help to our Brothers and Sisters be while

Showing the same love as Christ in Galilee.

Heavenly Father,

Let our Bodies boldly bear the brights beams of the bracing beauty of Beulah

Let our Ears eagerly extend to entrap Eternity's Enlightenment

Let our Eyes eagerly envisioning Everlasting Life

Let our Feet freely follow The Father in Faith

Let our Hearts hold heady hope for Heaven

Give us Helping Hands that hold Healing and Hospitality

Hold our Lives as Lost in Love for the Living Lord

Let our Mouths make Majestic and 

Meaningful Music on our Mission for The Master

And, at the end, Lord, let the

Saints' Spirits spiral in unmeasured satisfaction in the splendor 

of the Sacrificed Savior as we go ... Home! AMEN.

$ell Out OR Buy In?

$ell Out OR Buy In?

It is compelling, compelling
That everybody is $elling
$elling and telling of $elling
Their soul to the Devil!

Only a soul that won’t wait
On the Almighty God
To give him a gold plate
Containing Christ’s Righteousness
And Everlasting Life
Would feel compelled to smilingly tell
Of the $ell out to old $atan, and
Of preferring separation eternal
To Life that's supernal!

Well, let me tell you
How it is that I feel
About the compromise
And bona fides
And $1,000,000 lies:

It is like this:

With Satan, it is quid pro quo! (something for something)

With Jesus, it is “I love you! I’ve prepared you a home!”

With Satan, it is “Do what thou wilt!”

With Jesus, it is “Worship the King!”

With Satan, it is “Be ye conformed!”

With Jesus, it is “Repent, and be reborn!”

With Satan, it is “Be obdurate! Oh, Obfuscate! ”

With Jesus, it is “Illuminate! Please explicate!”

With Satan, it is “Affaire de couer! Be cavalier! Go Domineer!”

With Jesus, it is “Beware! Turn Away! That’s not the way!”

With Satan, it is “$ell me your soul! I’ll give you power and pearls!”

With Jesus, it is “Buy of Me fire-tried gold, white garments and eyesalve!”

Dear Ones: 

The last statements sum up all that is wrong in the world today:

Satan $ell$ to us what is parching, pretty, and putrefying!

Jesus wants us to buy what is practical to provide for our promotion to Paradise! 

So, if I have made my case clear
You have a decision to make
And you have nothing to fear
From the $ell-outs
Those diehards
Who have given their all
To a creature - not their Creator
For baubles and tight bums
For salutes from the slimy
For fame and fun runs!
Look to Jesus - He made us!
By Him we abide
Give glory unto Him
In His love abide!
For that love was sacrificial
It gave everything for us all
So that we can approach Him
And bless Him and praise
Him in the corporeal
And then in the blaze
Of Eternity’s Light
Sight
And Sound
With ever glad song!

Ephesians 6:10:17 (AKJV)

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: